Improvement in cultivators



J. GANFIELD.

Wheel-Cultivator.

vPatented July 26, 1864.

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Witnesses:

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Umain Tatras PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES'YCANFIELD, OF SABULA, IOW'A.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

y Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 43,635, dated July26, 1864.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAMES CANFIELD, of Sabula, in the county of Jacksonand State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement inGultivators; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear,and exact description of the same, reference beinghad to theaccompanying drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a top view ofmy improved cultivator. Fig. 2is a side view with one of the wheelsremoved. The red lines therein represent the cultivator thrown up on theaxle for driving to and from the eld.

The same letters of reference represent corresponding parts in thedifferent iigures.

To enable those skilled in the art to manufacture and use my invention,I wll'proceed to describe it with pnrticularity.

A is the tongue ot' my cultivator, and B a cross-piece to which thetongue is fastened. The cross-piece B is supported by two standards, cc, the said standards being hinged to the top ot' the axle at x, so asto allow otafree oscillating` motion of the tongue up and down.

I) is a strip of iron with its ends extending under the wooden axle E Equite to the hub ot' the wheel, and its center extending up nearly tothe tongue A, as shown in the draw-l ings, forming a bow. I is a similarstrip of iron, with its ends extending under the crosspieces R R and itscenter extending up, as shown in Fig. 2, its corners not coming upsquarebutbeingcurvedin, as shown by shaded lines y y, so as not tointerfere with the handles KK. E E are made ot' Wood and extend throughthc hubs of the wheel's, forming the axle.

H H are side beams of the cultivator, and are mortiscd firmly into theend pieces, E E and R R.

-F F are two central beams, supported upon the end pieces, E E and R It,by pivot joints,

sothat they can be turned laterally.

J is a long cross-beam, fastened by screws to the beams H H and havingattached to each end of it a standard for a cultivator-plow.

K K arevhandles for guiding the machine being fastened at each end bypins. This arthem to revolve together. The tongue A extends back overthe center of the cultivator and has fastened to it the seat 0 for thedriver, and there is also attached to the tongue at a suitable distancein front of the driver an umbrella-holder, I?.

N is a lever fastened at one end to the beam F and extending up near theseat O, so as to enable the operator sitting ou the said seat t0 turnthe lbeams F F laterally and thereby avoid damaging the corn. The weightof the driver on the seat O balances the pressure on the horses neckscaused by the draft of the machine.

The umbrella-holder enables the operator to do his work in a hot summersday sitting coolly'in4 the shade with no fears of a sunstroke.

,When cultivating the corn the iirst time, or when the corn is small,the long cross beam J is attached to the cultivator, as described, andthe plows on the end of it extending over between the adjacent rows oneach sideof the cultivator enable the operator to accomplish one-thirdmore work than he could without the cross-beam; but when the corn ishigh and there is more danger ot' breaking it down the beam J isremoved.

{Ehewooden pieces E extend through the hubs of the wheels, it beingcheaper than to extend the iron D and causing the wheels to revolve onit. f

The cultivator is thrown up on the axle, as shown by the red lilies inFig. 2, to drive to and from the field.

Having thus fully described the construction and operation of myimproved cultivator, what I claim as myinvention, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, ish

The combination and arrangement of the axle E E, the bow D, plow-beams HF, cross pieces It, and bow I, the removable bar J,

Y JAMES CANFIELD. Witnesses:

W. H. ELDREDGE, W. E. Manns.

